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Rachel Mitchell- University of Missouri School of Law
A self-professed “Navy brat,” Rachel Mitchell has lived in several U.S. states and Japan, finished home-schooling in 2004 and completed a six-year hitch in the U.S. Air Force. One thing […]
Auriel R. Kirkland- Washington University School of Law
Auriel R. Kirkland was teaching elementary school children in Memphis, Tennessee, when she watched the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was shot and killed by police Officer […]
The late Kimberly B. McDermott Wulkopf- Lewis Rice
To her colleagues at Lewis Rice, Kimberly B. McDermott Wulkopf was a brilliant lawyer whose mastery of tax law and estate planning was matched only by her ability to win […]
‘Visionary’ SLU law library director dies at 94
Eileen Haughey Searls, a Saint Louis University law professor emerita and longtime director of the former Omer Poos Law Library at the university, died Jan. 6. She was 94. Searls […]
Public Service: Monique D. Abby
rowing up in a blue-collar family in North County, Monique D. Abby knew from childhood that one of only two career paths awaited her as an adult. “My mom and […]
Public Service: Thea A. Sherry
he’d intended to be a doctor, until she realized as a college sophomore she “didn’t love it enough.” She switched her major to history and her goal to law school, […]
Litigation Practitioner Ashley Vaughan
olitics shaped her life’s path from the start. Ashley Vaughan worked for Jay Nixon in his first run for Missouri governor and later on campaigns for former state Reps. Kenny […]
Litigation Practitioner: Jerina D. Phillips
erina D. Phillips wrote her first contract at age 16. The party with whom she intended to enter into a contract: her mother. The substance of her inaugural attempt at […]
Litigation Practitioner: Jo Anna Pollock
hroughout Missouri and Illinois, residents who have faced environmental hazards are familiar with her name or reputation. Jo Anna Pollock was a critical component of the Simmons Hanly Conroy legal […]
Leftover class-action funds will honor Teitelman, aid students and the poor
Leftover class-action funds will honor Teitelman, aid students and the poorA pot of nearly $3.8 million left over from a decade-long class-action lawsuit will honor the legacy of the late Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman by providing legal services for poor and elderly people and educating law students in St. Louis.
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